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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions
ReligionsThis study offers a comparative analysis of preparatory practices in Buddhist meditation, focusing on the Tiantai tradition of medieval China and the Nyingma tradition of tenth-century Tibet.
Ching-Hsuan Mei
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Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 602-619, July 2024.Abstract The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment staged and performed anti‐colonial gendered ...
Shompa Lahiri
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Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 285-306, April 2024.Abstract This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and theologian Jyoti Sahi into conversation with Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nishnaabeg theorist ...
Michelle Voss
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 76-99, February 2024.Abstract This paper presents the results of the mineralogical, petrographic and chemical study of different archaeological samples related to terracruda sculptures and other elements that were part of the architectural decoration of the Buddhist sites of Tepe Narenj and Qol‐e‐tut (Kabul, Afghanistan; fifth to 11th centuries CE).
Monica López‐Prat +12 more
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Journal of Contemplative StudiesThe practice of Vajrayāna is predicated on a worldview different from that which frames classical Buddhist teachings, such as the Four Noble Truths. While classical theory and praxis are structured by the inexorability of dissatisfaction, suffering, and ...
Dominic D. Z. Sur
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EPILOGUE: Currents of convergence—Religious change in Asian contexts
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 318-320, August 2025.
J. Derrick Lemons
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Exploring India's Bridge Position: Contemporary Globalized Yoga in Fact and Fiction
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 435-436, June 2025.
Suzanne Newcombe
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